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I meAn often is a relative term, but there is precedent. It sucks, but this is also a state dept program so they tend to walk a conservative line, and they understandably want to avoid any evac crises

Unfortunately they often just cancel. It has happened more than once to grantees in middle eastern countries. I think it has to do both with the fact that most projects are not immediately transferable (topically) and with how funding works. :-/

a long biblio doesnt necessarily help, nor does a short one necessarily hurt. i dont think it's something to stress over. focus on the meat of the app, unless you got any specific comments about your bib

Was just notified I'm an alternate :/

Someone should email and ask if they plan to deliver results before the next round...

Someone should email and ask if they plan to deliver results before the next round...

seriously... is it possible they wont tell us today?

how can we find the actual stipend amount for what our fulbright is = to in our country?

weird my panel started 3/24 and... nothing. when does it become appropriate to email. (sorry for the negative news, but it is one tough grant, and at least they were prompter than normal)

I 100% agree with secret ninja

thats the deal with my country right now (perhaps we're the same).... i emailed the regional guy and he said they just... had made their decisions on ETAs but not the research grants... even if it's the same people on the in-country committee, i imagine research grants may take longer and/or involve more debate (depending on the country and the project). it's super lame though.

August?! They've already started panels for the winter deadline! Have you checked with Mantz???

No - unfunded (for a phd program at least) means no fellowship or guarantee of teaching so that you have money to live. It doesn't have to do with your project, which usually a dept requires you to find outside funding. So funding = covered for 3yrs of coursework, find grants for research, come back and have 2 or so more years guaranteed teaching. You need to know whether that 18,000 is your living stipend ie income or goes toward tuition

for my country they've sent out ETA but not research because... they haven't recieved the research results yet. so i think the delays can happen all over the place. i highly doubt the shutdowns had much to do with it, this is just how granting goes. all the competitions have gotten slower and longer over te past few years because all of these agencies are dealing with increased demand and increasingly limited funding. fulbright will getslower if the cut goes through (but still exist... in grant terms for a program this big 30 million is not a death sentence, just sadly limiting), but look at NSF? they're proposing to cut about ~40% of the budget for social sciences. and the fulbright hays, we all know what a shit show that grant is. this is the way thing are these days... #shouldvemajoredinweaponscompsortech

just to keep this all in perspective, for anyone applying to grad school at any point, or in grad school but not at the grant season phase. this waiting becomes your life. you have no control over the response dates. it's a dictatorial system. and when you don't get grants... you have to do the whole thing over! waiting is pretty much half the game. you have to cope and not obsess, because it's a huge part of 3rd/4th/5th years of any PhD program (and then you've got writing fellowships, postdocs, and actual jobs...)

so, do ETAs hear back at a different time than research grants?

i also just got a (very poorly/oddly timed) message about orientation dates "in the case I am awarded a Fulbright". i think they have their email process out of order...

that means the budget that they're proposing for FY15, not for grants that will be active during this time (the grants we are waiting on are part of FY14 budget)

the cuts are not for this round. they get their budget every year and cuts have to be approved. they'll go into effect next year. it's the same with NSF (if the bill being proposed passes).

@raymondnorth a lot of grad programs would defer for a year bc a Fulbright ultimately makes you a stronger candidate (especially if your phd involves research in another language. I don't think it's something you need to hide, but you could always contact the grad coordinator with a more general "are there cases in which the dept accepts deferral for a year" and keep it vague. The only thing you might want to think about is that it's very hard to get two fulbrights, so if you were ever planning on applying to the research one to support fieldwork (still IIE student, not talking about the scholar program), that might be a reason to pass. But honestly probably not bc down the road grants look for language competence and spending a year abroad is a good way to show that

just got an email about passing the first round

sooo. any news on the actual wenner gren? whispers? tidbits? leaks?

transcript requests come by email, rejection letters by snail mail (for SSRC).

yes these are different programs. some of these fulbrighters on here applied specifically to do a project with no related degree (though it may be in the service of a degree at a US institution). others are study grants for * a degree *, and while a project may be an internal requirement of the program you applied to, you're applying for the study itself. your program should describe the evaluation criteria pretty in detail, and usually it is some combo of a) getting admitted to the school (which may or may not have any requirement to include plans for a project) and b ) getting accepted by fulbright

just got a transcript request. i have no idea if they all come out at once or send them rolling. i think in the past there's been a few days roll to it.